Find actively maintained & popular open source software libraries for the Ruby programming language

The Ruby Toolbox is a catalog of all Rubygems that keeps track of popularity and health metrics to help you choose a reliable library

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To give you an overview of what open source libraries are available for a given task we group projects for common problems into categories.

The catalog itself is available for contributions on GitHub.

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With our search you can find Ruby open source libraries beyond what is listed in our categories.

We index all Rubygems published on Rubygems.org.

Project Popularity

We sort projects based on their popularity in the Ruby community - Rubygem downloads as well as popularity of the source code repository on GitHub.

This helps to identify projects that have a big user base, which is an indicator of project stability, maturity and maintenance.

Project Health

We assess the maintenance status of projects based on recent activity like package releases, commit activity or open issue counts and display colored indicators based on that.

This gives you a quick overview of the health of a project.

Popular Categories 

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Web App Frameworks

Software Frameworks that are designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs

Scripting Frameworks

Libraries that simplify the writing of command-line interfaces for your Ruby programs

Amazon Web Services

Official and community-built utilities for working with Amazon's AWS cloud services

JSON Parsers

JSON parsers convert data serialized in the popular JSON data exchange format to and from Ruby objects

Test Frameworks

Frameworks for writing automated tests for your software

HTTP clients

Easily interact with HTTP-based services

E-Mail Delivery

Easily send e-mails from your Ruby programs

Template Engines

Generate HTML and other markup based on dynamic content

Browser testing

Write and run automated tests of your web app in a real-world browser environment

JavaScript Tools

Utilities for working with JavaScript in Ruby

Ruby Core Extensions

Libraries that enhance Ruby's core classes like Hash or String with additional features

Concurrent Processing

Tools that simplify the writing of concurrent Ruby programs

Log Analysis

File Uploads

Handle file uploads in Ruby-based web applications, including streamlined storage on cloud services, the extraction of file metadata and handling of post-processing tasks like resizing and cropping of images

Web Authentication

Handle the authentication of users in web applications written in frameworks like Rails

Web Servers

Expose HTTP-based services from Ruby. Usually these are used with a rack-based Ruby web framework.

Trending Projects

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swagger_autogenerate

Generating Swagger YAML Automatically Based on Existing Test Cases in Ruby on Rails
13,879
302.11%

sorbet-result

Adds T::Result to sorbet-runtime, which is a basic, strongly-typed monad
133,163
92.89%

annotaterb

Annotates Rails/ActiveRecord Models, routes, fixtures, and others based on the database schema.
93,265
85.58%

anthropic

Anthropic API + Ruby! 🤖🌌
27,450
65.49%

rubocop-ordered_methods

Checks that methods are ordered alphabetically.
75,678
57.62%

solid_queue

Database-backed Active Job backend.
165,636
41.94%

mission_control-jobs

Operational controls for Active Job
73,135
38.93%

ostruct

Class to build custom data structures, similar to a Hash.
1,398,879
36.28%

Recently Added Categories 

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Rails Search Filters

Simplify Rails queries and filtering

Rails Search Engines

Supports search engines and full-text search.

Command Line Logger

Logging utility to output messages in the terminal specialized for CLI program (not generic app or system logger)

Chat Bots & ChatOps

Tools and frameworks to create chat bots.